Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — General Grant’s Childhood. [ARTICLE]

General Grant’s Childhood.

In the Century are printed extracts from a rare and curious Japanese Life of General Grant. The following is from it: ‘ ‘From the time of his birth he was different from an ordinary baby. His body was large. He weighed 1 kwan, 292 me. As he grew, his thought became deeper accordingly. It was seen by the eye of every man. He showed no color of fear, however great the sound that came into his ear. When he was not fully two years old his father, Jesshi Rumito Guraudo, happened to carry him outside of bis house, and some bad young men in the neighborhood, looking back at Gurando Kuen, said, ‘We hear that this baby, as people say, has a brave heart; we will try whether this is true or false.’ And they went away and got a pistol, and gave it to the hand of Gurando Kuen, and pulled the trigger. Then came out a bullet like a thunderstorm. The baby was not afraid of it, and never changed the color of his face; but pointing to the pistol, asked another shot. The father, as well as the bad boys, was astonished; and there was no one who did not roll his tongue.”